When Kitty and Cookie set sail for paradise, they expected fun, sun and tropical cocktails but they never expected murder to be on the itinerary.
Cousins, best friends, and lifelong partners in mischief, they board the Silver Siren expecting a welcome reprieve from the disaster of the last year, some much needed fun and maybe just a little bad behavior thrown in for spice. But when a fellow passenger turns up dead, paradise turns perilous.

One phone call from Dr. Laura Delgado shatters the uneasy peace Cookie Ledbetter has built since her husband’s death. Butch’s ashes sit on Dr. Laura’s desk in Albuquerque—what he left behind is a trail of questions no one wants answered. When Cookie and her cousin Kitty Bradford start following that trail into the New Mexico desert, they uncover more than corruption and smuggling. They find proof that Butch’s “accident” was anything but. Each discovery pulls them deeper into a network of lies, danger, and betrayal that reaches farther than either of them imagined.

Kitty Cameron Bradford came home to Texas thinking the worst was behind her. She was wrong. Bradford Inc. is riddled with corruption that goes deeper than anyone suspected, federal attention is multiplying faster than she can manage it, and somewhere out there, people who lost millions because of her are keeping score. But corporate warfare is only half the battle.
When Weldon's secret DNA test delivers results nobody saw coming, Kitty finds herself following a trail that winds from the honky-tonks of Austin to forgotten farmland deep in the Piney Woods — and straight into the hidden history of a Texas music legend. Bobby Ray Schafer loved exactly one woman in his life. He just never managed to tell her so in person.

With Bradford Inc. finally clawing its way back from the damage left behind by her late husband’s corruption, Kitty should be focused on rebuilding her company, protecting her daughters, and figuring out what exactly to do with the U.S. Marshal who broke protocol, walked out of Washington, D.C., and came home to her. But peace does not last long on Broken Branch Ranch.
When Earl and Chester Burkhalter skip bail, a rig explosion injures one of Kitty’s own, and a suspicious visitor walks straight into Bradford headquarters wearing a polite smile and dead eyes, Kitty’s gut tells her the danger is far from over. The Burkhalters are not just running. They are hiding, waiting, and planning something worse.
Unfortunately for them, Kitty is done being scared.

Kitty Bradford thought the worst of the Burkhalter mess was behind her. That was before Bradford, Inc. ended up owning several saltwater disposal sites scattered across Texas, and Kitty had to go see exactly what she had bought. A routine audit should have meant bad paperwork, missing equipment, and neglected yards. Instead, the first stop brings bugged offices, frightened employees, a bought-and-paid-for sheriff, and “security” men who seem a lot more interested in smuggling than guarding anything.
Some places are broken. Some are dangerous. One is run by Dorothy Mae Crawford, a six-foot oilfield woman with no patience for fools and a gift for keeping crooked men outside her gates.

Christmas at Broken Branch Ranch is never quiet. Let’s face it, with this family, it never is.
With the Butterfly Brigade in full holiday mode, a houseful of U.S. Marshals underfoot, family traditions taking over every spare minute, and one very determined mother making sure everyone celebrates properly, Kitty Bradford barely has time to think.
Which is probably a good thing.
Because the one thing she has been trying very hard not to think about is David Morgan. Kitty loves him. That part is easy.
Everything that comes after is not.

Murder, Mayhem, and Monkey Lalas

Book One of the Double Trouble Rides Again series

Desert, Diesel, and Dirty Deeds

Book Two of the Double Trouble Rides Again series

Secrets, Sons, and Sad Songs

Book Three of the Double Trouble Rides Again series

Weddings, Wreaths and Welshmen

Part of the Double Trouble Rides Again series

Sinners, Senators, and Salt Water

Book Five of the Double Trouble Rides Again series

Proposals, Protocols, and Psychos

Book Four of the Double Trouble Rides Again series

Piglets, Priests, and Pretenders (Book Six of the Double Trouble Rides Again series)

Birds, Bea(s) and Butterflies (Book Seven in the Double Trouble Rides Again)